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TIL FEMA has a Waffle House Index to measure storm damage
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TIL that during the making of Twilight Zone: The Movie [1983], produced and co-directed by Stephen Spielberg, a helicopter-crash stunt gone wrong resulted in the decapitation-death of star Vic Murrow and two young child actors, all of which was caught on tape by three cameras.
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TIL that Quetzalcoatlus northropi was the largest known animal to ever fly. Being as tall as a Giraffe and with the wingspan of an F-16 Fighter (45-60 feet)
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TIL that the man behind the 2013 “Fedora Guy” meme is actually an actor named Jerry Messing, who starred as Gordon in the 1999 TV series “Freaks and Geeks”.
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TIL in 2012, a man sacrificed his kidney in order to save his younger sister but his efforts ended in vain when a nurse mistakenly disposed the donated organ. Despite the success of the kidney transplant 3 months later, the family sued the hospital for their negligence.
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TIL that Ed Helms' missing tooth in "The Hangover" was not created with prosthetics or visual effects. Helms never had that tooth grow and received a dental implant as a teenager, and it was removed during filming.